jawnv6

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by jawnv6 4y ago
I picked that up during a steam sale along with the Toki's, I'll check it out. Thanks!
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by jawnv6 4y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, I will!
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by jawnv6 4y ago
I enjoy the general structure of Metroidvanias but most of them rely on combat mechanics for the micro-challenges in each room or boss. I like the exploration, backtracking, progression and unlocking previously inaccessible area. But comba
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by jawnv6 4y ago
but... you had to go looking for that one, skipping over the part where you saw a bunch of waist-up pictures of a cartoon canine and got too hot and bothered to continue reading? it's not linked from the original article
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by jawnv6 4y ago
great article. fun to see things like > Transmeta usually steers the conversation toward performance on DES algorithms or MPEG loops, tasks that play into Crusoe's (and Efficeon's) strengths. 'MPEG loops' got a lot m
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by jawnv6 5y ago
I don't think the project is putting their best presentation forward, but the second image on the intro makes it pretty clear there's a .v/.sdc/.def file kicking around. Without any relevant tooling to develop, debug, o
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by jawnv6 5y ago
This seems like a pretty egregious misreading of the project? Python isn't being lowered into silicon. It's a glue language for Boring Old Verilog that's been "compiled" into silicon since 1984. chip.set('sour
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by jawnv6 5y ago
The execution time is going to seem really zippy after the 8 week wait for the chips to be fabbed.
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by jawnv6 5y ago
It's impressive but in practice, as a guide, it's very difficult to use. There is one path to follow with no overall map or routing to skip things. So to use it to figure out one tricky section often means reading 4 extra paragr
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by jawnv6 5y ago
You're not a billionaire, why are you spending your precious time on this earth trying to lump them together with "middle class Joes" as if that absolves them of their history? Perhaps Buffett doesn't have a singular gen
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by jawnv6 7y ago
"What the Dormouse Said" is a classic, highly recommended. Much more niche is "Race for a New Game Machine," highlighting the IBM design team responsible for the chips powering the Xbox 360 and PS3.
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by jawnv6 7y ago
that may have been what they wanted to write. unfortunately they wrote something wrong and misleading instead. i understood what they wrote perfectly well and the implication therein isn't, somehow, my fault
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by jawnv6 7y ago
no, you could not "always" find something useful to put there later. gross exaggeration
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by jawnv6 7y ago
in addition to the complexities they add to every layer of the stack that ajross and alain94040 brought up, they're not all that useful in practice. i seem to recall that they'd rarely be over 50% utilized and the majority of inst
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by jawnv6 7y ago
you sure about that link? he's talking about a core that didn't have SMT and is ranting, in general, about errata existing and wildly misrepresenting their impact never mind that most errata are conditional until the ucode patch l
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by jawnv6 7y ago
I fail to see how a dev talking about a wholly unrelated implementation from an entirely different vendor has anything to bear on this conversation unless you're just maliciously spreading FUD around the entire concept of random number
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by jawnv6 7y ago
right, labor law is aware of "constructive dismissal," been a part of the law since, gosh, 1964? oh right but this is ~ google ~ in the ~ silicon valley tech industry ~ so stodgy old concepts like "long settled labor law&quot
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by jawnv6 8y ago
how is MESI "an abstraction"? why is it the only model proffered instead of MESIF/MOESI? and "the top 16-bits are basically ignored" is a funny way to spell "general protection exception on linear memory refere
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by jawnv6 8y ago
i legit don't know what you're expecting? your lie was central to the technical discussion and at no point did you acknowledge the error. if you can't handle being called out for providing false technical information... don&
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by jawnv6 8y ago
im sad i missed your edit, apparently filled with unhinged personal attacks, but ive limited my commentary to the technical details and it's amazing that you still claim some higher ground while steadfastly ignoring the subject matter,
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by jawnv6 8y ago
bait? regardless of my tone, a memory fence is not required. no reading of the relevant documentation supports that, if you want to be wrong you're free to do so. but please don't pretend to educate others with wild uninformed g
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by jawnv6 8y ago
a memory fence is not required, as per my reading of the Intel documentation. i think you're just guessing and haven't actually written any SMC x86? would you mind sharing what PRM sections back up this reading? maybe a careful r
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by jawnv6 8y ago
you should probably check the Programmer's Reference Manual (PRM) i mean, they don't try to hide this information? Section 8.1.3 gives two options that are guaranteed to work across future iterations of hardware. the sibling com
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by jawnv6 8y ago
wasn't it generally agreed that the Gawker-destroying opinion probably would have been reversed if they could've kept it afloat for an appeal? the bar for "messed up" isn't where you'd think
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by jawnv6 8y ago
It might? Your OP was very specific on the subject and you seem aware that the side is inappropriate: Few hard taps on the bottom detach the CO2 bubbles and cause them to all go to the top few hard taps on the bottom (not the side), few ha
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by jawnv6 8y ago
"the" VC? lol
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by jawnv6 8y ago
Right, the article is chasing VC money. They have a calculator to see how far a VC dollar will take you called "VC Arbitrage". The author takes flights to SF specifically for VC meetings. You're talking about a situation wh
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by jawnv6 8y ago
50% of VC funding lands in CA. 50% of that is on Sand Hill. So ~25% of all VC funding happens in offices in Palo Alto, the sheer efficiency of chasing a funding round can't be beat. For an established serial entrepreneur with a prove
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by jawnv6 8y ago
It's still incredibly disrespectful way to approach a community, and all of these replies ignore the thrust of my question about the expert re-upping after this ruse has been made apparent. Comboy spread a lot of disinformation in the
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by jawnv6 8y ago
disclaimer should have been in the first post, not a reply to a reply long after the confident assertions over what a "storage" CPU must do.

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